Thursday, November 12, 2009

The hope of Jeremiah

The Lord placed this word on my heart from Lamentations chapter three.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeker him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

The Prophet Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentation mourning over God's judgment on his homeland Judah, because after God blessed them they turned away from him and served other gods, provoking his jealous wrath.

Jeremiah after warning his country for decades about the coming judgment, now saw the result of a stubborn people refusing, to listen to GOD;S warning, a land totally destroyed.

In his mourning God allowed the prophet to see, God's mercy in it all. This is a lesson applicable to today in the USA. Currently there in much hardship that has come upon our nation, because we forsook God's ways, and did our own thing. God we will not be mocked what soever a man reap so shall he sow. The growing violence in our streets, schools, and homes are the result of our rejecting God's principles laid out in the Bible,and following a way that looks right to us but leads to death.

As I look at the poor state of affairs, in which we find ourselves, I take courage in the fact that, we are still here because of God's mercy and goodness. God is Good desires that none perish, so he has nor destroyed us completely yet, giving us the time to turn from our folly, and back to him, so that our nation may be restored.

I see all that is happening, and I am secure in the fact that God is merciful to those that trust him and serve him. Judgment is being poured out in the USA. If any one says different he is lying to you and the truth is not in him. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The answer to the question "who would Jesus bomb?" is Sodom, and Gomorrah. Unless this Nation turns, from evil the United States will be like those two cities, and in the final judgment they will testify against us, for they did taste of the Lord's goodness as we did, nor did they see his wonders as we did. In the US the lame walked and the blind gained sight. In the war of 1812 we lost our capital to the British , and our military was destroyed, the president of that time, took what was left of congress, hid in a Church, and cried out to God, and God answered through the most severe storm ever to hit this nation, and it wiped out the foreign invaders, preserving our liberty.

God made us the greatest nation on the Earth, and we rewarded him, by removing his law from our public buildings, and through abortion we treat the blessing of children with total detest.

However those who turn to him, and chose to turn their lives over to him will find mercy.

The mercy that I am referring to has been bought for through the sacrifice of the sinless son of God, who though that it would be of greater value to die for the sin of man that to live in eternity without him.

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This is part of my salvation testimony from twenty years ago. There was so much involved in my salvation, that to tell the whole story would take a whole book. So here is a very brief version. This testimony took place after the girl that I loved deeply left me and married another man. To deal with the pain I really dived into the occult, and porn. Today I am totally free in Christ. It was the love of God that changed me. I hated the Lord, I wanted to see then end of the Church. My uncle, aunt, 2 sisters, and my father were radically saved, and transformed. I knew them all well, and new well enough, that they were different people now. I did not rejoice over this it got me angry. I wanted to see this thing stopped. A Demon came to me, and gave me an idea, go with dad to church and, start some trouble, and if possible take out the Pastor. One Sunday morning, I went with Dad to Church. I watched dad go through his Sunday routine. After the message, dad introduced me to Pastor Tom Formica, an Assemblies of God Pastor. I thought to my self, let's end right here. I took a step toward the man, as I did my bones started to vibrate the core. The closer I got to him, the worst the vibration was. The Pastor shook my hand. At that point I started, backing away. I thought the Lord was going to shake me apart because the vibration became so severe. When we arrived home, I just wanted to be alone. My family knew something happened, but they were not sure what. None of them knew about my occult involvement. That night I actually spoke to God for the first time in years. I changed my mind about, attacking his church, or his preachers. He was to powerful for me to take on. I decided just to avoid Christians, give them their space hoping God would give me mine. About two weeks later. I was on my way out the door, for my favorite activity, a tour of the Philadelphia porn shops. It was a Saturday night, and I had a full paycheck in my pocket. I planned to send it all on porn, and a hooker. Then, Dad grabbed me and said "you are coming with me" After a ten minute debate, I decided to make him happy and go with him just so I can go and do my thing, afterwards. My brother was trying to kill his ex-girl friend. For about a month, they had an occult, prayer war. My brother was chanting, against his ex's life, while she, a new Christian, and members of her church came against it in prayer. My brother was freaked, all his Satanist rituals, were yielding zero results. My brother had decided to take a more physical approach, and attack her house. Dad, and I arrived at Debbie's house, Debbie is the name of my brother's ex-girl friend. After calming, Eddie, my brother, Dad took both of us into the house, where the Lord set up a spiritual ambush. In that house there were 20 Christian men ready to pray. They laid hands on Eddie and Started to pray, and praise and worship Jesus Christ the presence of the almighty fill the room like a runaway freight train. In his presence£¬ I for the first time in my life could actually see my life, all my sin, all the demons I contacted, all the girls I ripped off, all the people I scammed, all the ones that I hurt. I realized that the righteous judge of the universe was in that room and I deserved death for the way I lived. Fear seized me, so that I was paralyzed. Tears streamed down my face, because I thought this was the end. All I could do was cry please don't kill me, over and over, and over again. There are really no words to describe what happened next. It was like the Lord kneeled on one knee, looked me in the eye, and said" Mike it is alright I heard you, sin no more." The Lord forgave everything; this rocked my view of God. I saw him as angry, and violent, but he revealed himself in gentleness, and mercy. I stood up all that night, in shellshock. I just had to ask him, why he did not take me out, because I was his enemy. The Spirit stirred up an old memory, going back twelve years. At seven years old, I heard part of a message preached by a television evangelist saying,"that any one can know God.” This really got me hyped. I went up to my Dad' s room and told the " oh God I know you are busy, running the universe, and I am just a kid, but if you can find the time, could you come and talk to me because I really want to know you". The Lord showed me that the heart I had at seven never really left me. I entered into the occult looking for him, thinking that it would lead me to God. That Sunday God opened my eyes to the cross. The Cross is the avenue that God has provided to make all things right with himself. God bless you. For full story click link